scramblejim
05-17-2008, 08:46 AM
Hello, Im relatively new here, -been lurking and reading for a couple weeks. My name is Jim and I work as a technician at a chevy dealership. I drive a 2002 Chevy Impala with a 3.4L, tires set at 40psi (w/nitrogen), and I am on week 2 of driving with a SG2. I have a 31 mile commute each way on 95% rural highways, avg speed 45mph, just a few hills. I have only started driving the car again in the last 4-5 months (wife was driving it) and since the weather has kept above freezing here in Wisconsin I have been getting 31-31.7 mpg consistently with minor adjustments in my driving technique. I would like to set a goal of improving to the point of consistently getting 35mpg by the end of the summer with this car.
My wife is driving a 1997 Saturn SC2, 5speed, with the "performance" transmission, I AM going to change either the whole trans to the econ box or do the 5th gear swap, but she reports getting 37.5 to 38 mpg :bananajump:, and she is still relatively new to driving a stick shift. I know that she doesn't focus very hard on FE, but she has taken some good advice and put it to practical use like anticipating her stops and coasting more frequently. I want that car to get over 40mpg. I have a friend with a SL1 who has to brag that he beats me with 42.5
Im still trying to "tune" my scangauge to the car, I was tracking the speedo with a Garmin etrex, and when I had the SG2 speedo as closely calibrated to the speedo on the gps, the SG2 odometer tracked miles more slowly than the GPS, like almost 5%. Im going to give it another shot to make sure that I had everything else set correctly and make sure that I hadn't started driving before the GPS was ready to navigate, or that several small trips just rounded off once I had been over 100 miles and lost the decimal place.
Thanks for all the great information that Ive gotten off the site so far, and all that is to come!
My wife is driving a 1997 Saturn SC2, 5speed, with the "performance" transmission, I AM going to change either the whole trans to the econ box or do the 5th gear swap, but she reports getting 37.5 to 38 mpg :bananajump:, and she is still relatively new to driving a stick shift. I know that she doesn't focus very hard on FE, but she has taken some good advice and put it to practical use like anticipating her stops and coasting more frequently. I want that car to get over 40mpg. I have a friend with a SL1 who has to brag that he beats me with 42.5
Im still trying to "tune" my scangauge to the car, I was tracking the speedo with a Garmin etrex, and when I had the SG2 speedo as closely calibrated to the speedo on the gps, the SG2 odometer tracked miles more slowly than the GPS, like almost 5%. Im going to give it another shot to make sure that I had everything else set correctly and make sure that I hadn't started driving before the GPS was ready to navigate, or that several small trips just rounded off once I had been over 100 miles and lost the decimal place.
Thanks for all the great information that Ive gotten off the site so far, and all that is to come!